Word: organism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a cancer checked in one organ only to flare up in another, factional fighting erupted again in Lebanon last week. Premier Rashid Karami's reluctant decision to order army units into the northern sector of the country (TIME, Sept. 22) finally halted the violence around Tripoli. But Lebanon's second largest city had hardly quieted down when street warfare broke out in Beirut for the fourth time since last April. More than 100 people were killed in several days of shooting and bombing in the capital before a tenuous truce was negotiated at week...
...convicts receive the warm greeting from society given to former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner. Convicted in 1973 on charges of mail fraud, bribery and tax evasion, Kerner spent seven months in prison before his parole in March to undergo an operation for lung cancer. Last week as an organ growled out Stouthearted Men, Kerner strode into a testimonial dinner in Springfield, Ill., to thank 1,100 friends for their support. "In prosperity, it's very easy to find a friend. In adversity, it's one of the most difficult things," observed Kerner, now 67 and director...
...half the stuff that she claimed. It was fun to read about her doing it with a dog. And a lot of people, if they remember nothing else about the book, will remember her earnest assertion that you can always tell the size of a man's sexual organ's by the length of his fingers. The I've been there and back narrative of the real Xaviera may have been inane, but the movie is so clean it's almost godly--and Doris Day could have played this whore and not batted a sanctimonious eyelash...
Initially, in addition to wanting to legitimize postwar border changes, the Soviets also sought to set up some kind of security council-a "permanent standing organ," as delegates jocularly referred to it-that would police the new borders and provide Moscow with a formal base for criticizing Western policies. The Russians gradually backed away from this second objective, mainly because they belatedly realized that any security council would direct its criticisms eastward as well as westward. The fact that the two nations most interested in a permanent council were Yugoslavia and Rumania-Eastern Europe's most independent-minded Communist...
...because he vetoed bills that were perceived by the people as congressional grab bags. New York City is viewed in Washington as a classic example of ambitious social spending gone too far, of a liberal-dominated polity gorging itself on promises that could not be fulfilled. More broadly, that organ of liberal theory the New Republic warned in an editorial that the growing "fear of big government, intervening government" could undermine all traditional liberal goals. Even on the soft ground of college campuses, a rousing denunciation of the Government as a vague, overbearing menace brings many kids to their feet...